Mr. and Mrs.

Details to come later, but.....

The future Mr. and Mrs. Malone

Stooges

For my dad's birthday we (my mom, sister, dad and Michael) went to the Fork and Screen at AMC.  If you aren't familiar, it's where you eat dinner at the movie.....they have servers and a full menu.  It was a ton of fun EXCEPT for the movie we went to see.  "The Three Stooges."  UGH.

Thank goodness for the company!!

Our own version of "The three Stooges."

After the movie we headed to Fred P. Ott's where Meredith is working for a little karaoke.  

Be impressed.

A Little "Dangerous Minds" action from the sis.

Things My Sister Does

In our family, my sister Meredith is the funny one.  Hands down.  No question about it.  So, in honor of my oh-so-funny sister.....I'm posting a small sampling of some of the funny things my sister does.  I'm just hoping these things translate over the blogosphere.....because they are darned funny in person!!!

Sorority Song

Shakey Face

The "dance up on ya" move.

And she definitely wastes no opportunity to make fun of her big sister.  Apparently (and I disagree here!), I have a funny sounding "boo."

The Weekend

Well.....it's been a while since I've made it to my computer to blog.   My life has been a little crazy as of late.  Hopefully I'll be able to explain more about that in the near future!  For now, though, I thought I'd share about my weekend!

It started on Tuesday evening (not exactly the weekend, but oh well!) when Michael and I met at Panera for dinner.  We were in the middle of having dinner -- in fact, I was literally in the middle of a sentence -- when I saw my wonderful friend Shawna, her mom, and (most importantly....but don't tell her I said that!) her new baby boy!!!!!  Michael and I hadn't seen Shawna and Ramsey (her baby boy) for several weeks.  How he has grown!!!

Ramsey -- just a few days old

Such a big boy!  Ramsey, that is.  :-)

I had this waiting for me when I got home on Friday.

Beth Moore was in Kansas City this weekend with Living Proof Live.  How I love her!!  She is such a fabulous speaker, and always speaks a Word that I need to hear.  And, the worship.  OH, THE WORSHIP!!!  I can't help but believe I had a glimpse of what it will be like in heaven some day listening to the angels sing!

9,800 women singing His praises

I love my Mama!!

We spent Friday evening and Saturday morning with Beth and 9,800 sisters in Christ.  What an inspiration!  Saturday afternoon turned out to be beautiful so my mom and I walked down to the Power and Light District for a little Chipotle.

Saturday night Michael and I were off to celebrate his friend Travis' birthday at Buffalo Wild Wings.

Sunday was a wonderfully relaxing day with my man and my family.  I love weekends like that!

On a completely random side note....do Michael's feet look weird to anyone but me?!  Do you see that giant gap between his big toe and pointer toe?  My feet don't look like that.

(I told him his feet were so weird looking that I was going to blog about it.)

Happy Spring, everyone!  

TWENTY-SIX DAYS UNTIL SUMMER BREAK!!!!  WAHOO!!!

The BIG 3-0

The day of my big 3-0 started with just a little relaxing and reading on the beach.  

After a morning of a whole lot of wonderful nothing.....we went to our now daily water aerobics class and then pulled up a chair for a lunch of chips and guac.  Let me just tell you, I do NOT like guacamole.  But I LOVED the guacamole at the resort!!  Apparently you should go to Mexico if you want good guacamole!  

My sister was appalled that I was turning 30 and had never taken a shot before.  I think shots sound disgusting.  I don't want to be drunk and so I don't really know what other purpose there is for a shot.  But to appease my sister, I agreed to trying one on my 30th.  She made some kind of peachy thing that really didn't taste very good.  (And if it doesn't taste good, why would I want to drink it???)

I sipped mine.  :-)

After my first shot (which I don't anticipate experiencing again), we hung out at the little outdoor bar for a while longer and just enjoyed the view.  While we were relaxing, our favorite server, Pablo, (who is also a mighty fine salsa dancer), walked by, grabbed Meredith out of her chair and danced a few minutes.  It was quite entertaining!

We decided to head back to the beach shortly after.  I was lying on our cabana...

when I heard my mom call my name from our room.  I turned around, and who was standing there?  PABLO!  He had been combing the beach for us because he had a birthday cake for me!  He had a candle and everything!! 

How sweet is that?! 

After a lovely day relaxing on the beach, it was time to get cleaned up for the official birthday celebration!

For my birthday dinner we went back to Maria Marie's.  We ate there the night before and it was so delicious we wanted more!  The servers were wonderful!  They brought me out a birthday cake (my second of the day!) and sang happy birthday to me.

Meredith really likes this pose.  It drive my mom crazy.

After dinner we headed back down to 5th Avenue.  The streets were really crowded this night!  We stopped to look at a few things along the way.

These last couple of pictures are from our last day in Playa del Carmen.  

All in all, I'd say this was quite possibly my best birthday ever.  

If I have to turn 30, Mexico was the place to do it!

Goodbye 20's....Hello Mexico! Day 2 and 3

 Our second day in Playa del Carmen began with a room change.  This was our new view from the patio. You open the gate and you're on the beach.  We had a cabana reserved every day just for us.

Our room was beautiful, too.

We spent the morning on the beach...

And in the ocean...

At noon we took a break for water aerobics...

And then headed back to do some more reading...

That night we got cleaned up and headed to dinner.

Day 3 was just about identical until the afternoon when we took a bike tour through Playa del Carmen to see some somewhat lame Mayan ruins.  The ride was nice, though!

Mr. Iguana was hanging out on the ruins and was not thrilled to see us.

That night we headed to the fancy resort next door for dinner at Maria Marie's. 

Ah.....Mexico.